recording by default as a rule could end up being a bad thing sometimes.....
i never thought so until one night in the SEA.
ran film from start of the frame, 2 hours into it, my PC crashed, powersupply overheated.
when i got my PC back up, there was a 89MB AHF film in my films folder.
you wanna say taxing on a system to run a game an create a 89mb file also?
there are times when you can be in the air for over an hour easily, and that film would end up being huge.
now imagine all those films being written, then deleted, written then deleted, written, then deleted, over and over, it would fragement up your HD and be a general pain in the prettythang.
if is was to become an option, make it like flight preference "record film by default" as a checkbox